| STENDHAL | Pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle, 1783-1842, French novelist (8) |
| AUSTRIAN | What was the original nationality of Marie Antoinette? (8) |
| OUIDA | Pen-name of Marie Louise Rame, author of 1867 novel Under Two Flags (5) |
| REINEDIN | Restricted noise after appearance of Marie Antoinette? (6,2) |
| BENTINCK | William Henry Cavendish --, 3rd Duke of Portland, PM in 1783 and from 1807 to 1809 (8) |
| TIDINESS | Basis of Marie Kondo's brand |
| TUNGSTEN | A shiny, silvery-white metal first isolated in 1783 whose ores include wolframite (8) |
| BROWNING | Writer of the 1842 poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin (8) |
| POTEMKIN | Catherine the Great’s lover who achieved a peaceful annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 1783 |
| THRENODY | Poem or song of mourning or lamentation such as that written by Ralph Waldo Emerson on the death of his son in 1842 (8) |
| SHANGHAI | The opening up of foreign trade following the 1842 Treaty of Nanjing turned this city into a major international port (8) |
| PILSENER | A type of lager, originally brewed in Bohemia, first produced in 1842 (8) |
| OHIGGINS | Bernado ___, the founder of modern Chile (1778 - 1842) (8) |
| MALLARME | Stephane, French poet and critic born in 1842 (8) |
| MASSENET | Jules -, 1842-1912, French composer (8) |
| RAYLEIGH | John, Lord --, 1842-1919, British physicist (8) |
| PENDULUM | 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe adapted for the cinema by Richard Matheson in 1961 (3,3,3,3,8) |
| CORONETS | 'Kind hearts are more than _' (Alfred, Lord Tennyson 'Lady Clara Vere de Vere' (1842) st. 7) (8) |
| BERNARDO | ___ O'Higgins (1778-1842) (8) |
| THEWRECK | Narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in Bel ads and Other Poems in 1842 (3,5,2,3,8) |
